Position OverviewABOUT APOLLOApollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUESOur clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:Outperform expectations.Challenge ConventionChampion OpportunityLead responsibly.Drive collaborationAs One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.OUR BENEFITSApollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family. Please reach out to your Human Capital Business Partner for more detailed information on specific benefits.POSITION OVERVIEW:Apollo Global Management is seeking a hands-on Martech Lead to own backend architecture and performance across our enterprise Marketing ecosystem including AEM platform. This role combines deep technical execution with team leadership. The individual will define backend standards, govern repository structure and security, lead performance optimization initiatives, and mentor developers while remaining actively involved in solution design and complex implementation.PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:<ul><li>Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., Cursor, AI code assistants JetBrains, Claude Code) to improve developer productivity, code quality, and architectural consistency.</li><li>Evaluate and integrate emerging Adobe initiatives, including AI-powered capabilities and agent-based workflows within AEM and Adobe Experience Cloud.</li><li>Stay current with Adobe’s roadmap around generative AI, intelligent content automation, and agent-driven orchestration.</li><li>Enable the team through training and knowledge-sharing sessions on AI-driven development practices.</li><li>Lead a team of AEM backend developers.</li><li>Conduct code reviews with focus on:<ul><li>Security</li><li>Performance</li><li>Scalability</li><li>Clean architecture</li></ul></li><li>Mentor engineers on Sling Models, JCR best practices, and secure development.</li><li>Provide technical escalation support for complex issues.</li><li>Participate in hiring and onboarding of AEM engineers and other firm initiatives.</li></ul>Qualifications &amp; Experience<ul><li>12+ years of enterprise software development.</li><li>6–8+ years of hands-on AEM backend experience.</li><li>Strong expertise in:<ul><li>Java</li><li>Sling Models lifecycle and optimization</li><li>OSGi services</li><li>JCR / Oak internals</li><li>Repo Init configuration</li><li>ACL and group-based security models</li><li>Universal Editor</li></ul></li><li>Proven experience leading backend architecture decisions</li><li>Hands-On experience in Salesforce Marketing Cloud with Marketo &amp; Pardot as Good to have.</li><li>Review and approve technical designs before implementation.</li><li>Lead refactoring initiatives to improve maintainability and performance.</li><li>Experience supporting enterprise-scale public or intranet platforms.</li><li>Strong debugging and production incident management experience.</li></ul>Apollo provides equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, veteran status, gender/sex or sexual orientation, or any other criterion or circumstance protected by applicable law, ordinance, or regulation. The above criteria are intended to be used as a guide only – candidates who do not meet all the above criteria may still be considered if they are deemed to have relevant experience/ equivalent levels of skill or knowledge to fulfil the requirements of the role. Any job offer will be conditional upon and subject to satisfactory reference and background screening checks, all necessary corporate and regulatory approvals or certifications as required from time to time, and entering definitive contractual documentation satisfactory to Apollo.

<h5>Apollo aims to be a leading provider of flexible and long-duration capital enabling the energy transition. </h5>Apollo’s Sustainable Investing Platform leverages our deep experience across asset classes to deploy capital in key sectors driving the energy transition and decarbonization. The scale and breadth of this opportunity is significant, and across asset classes, Apollo sees the opportunity to deploy, commit, or arrange more than $100 billion by 2030.Since 2022, Apollo-managed funds have deployed, committed or arranged over $59 billion¹ into energy transition, infrastructure and sustainability-related investments, supporting companies and projects across infrastructure, wind, solar, storage and renewable fuels, as well as a wide range of technologies to facilitate decarbonization. Apollo has also played an active role in helping finance the transformation of certain traditional energy companies.

Associate Director – AEM Technical Lead

Position OverviewABOUT APOLLOApollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUESOur clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:Outperform expectations.Challenge ConventionChampion OpportunityLead responsibly.Drive collaborationAs One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.OUR BENEFITSApollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family. Please reach out to your Human Capital Business Partner for more detailed information on specific benefits.POSITION OVERVIEW:Apollo Global Management is seeking a hands-on Martech Lead to own backend architecture and performance across our enterprise Marketing ecosystem including AEM platform. This role combines deep technical execution with team leadership. The individual will define backend standards, govern repository structure and security, lead performance optimization initiatives, and mentor developers while remaining actively involved in solution design and complex implementation.PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:<ul><li>Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., Cursor, AI code assistants JetBrains, Claude Code) to improve developer productivity, code quality, and architectural consistency.</li><li>Evaluate and integrate emerging Adobe initiatives, including AI-powered capabilities and agent-based workflows within AEM and Adobe Experience Cloud.</li><li>Stay current with Adobe’s roadmap around generative AI, intelligent content automation, and agent-driven orchestration.</li><li>Enable the team through training and knowledge-sharing sessions on AI-driven development practices.</li><li>Lead a team of AEM backend developers.</li><li>Conduct code reviews with focus on:<ul><li>Security</li><li>Performance</li><li>Scalability</li><li>Clean architecture</li></ul></li><li>Mentor engineers on Sling Models, JCR best practices, and secure development.</li><li>Provide technical escalation support for complex issues.</li><li>Participate in hiring and onboarding of AEM engineers and other firm initiatives.</li></ul>Qualifications &amp; Experience<ul><li>12+ years of enterprise software development.</li><li>6–8+ years of hands-on AEM backend experience.</li><li>Strong expertise in:<ul><li>Java</li><li>Sling Models lifecycle and optimization</li><li>OSGi services</li><li>JCR / Oak internals</li><li>Repo Init configuration</li><li>ACL and group-based security models</li><li>Universal Editor</li></ul></li><li>Proven experience leading backend architecture decisions</li><li>Hands-On experience in Salesforce Marketing Cloud with Marketo &amp; Pardot as Good to have.</li><li>Review and approve technical designs before implementation.</li><li>Lead refactoring initiatives to improve maintainability and performance.</li><li>Experience supporting enterprise-scale public or intranet platforms.</li><li>Strong debugging and production incident management experience.</li></ul>Apollo provides equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, veteran status, gender/sex or sexual orientation, or any other criterion or circumstance protected by applicable law, ordinance, or regulation. The above criteria are intended to be used as a guide only – candidates who do not meet all the above criteria may still be considered if they are deemed to have relevant experience/ equivalent levels of skill or knowledge to fulfil the requirements of the role. Any job offer will be conditional upon and subject to satisfactory reference and background screening checks, all necessary corporate and regulatory approvals or certifications as required from time to time, and entering definitive contractual documentation satisfactory to Apollo.

Associate Director – AEM Technical Lead

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